List of Famous people born in Oran Province, Algeria

Mohamed Youcef Belaïli is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Qatar as a left winger for the Algeria national team. He currently play with Qatar SC.

François Valéry is a French singer-songwriter and composer.

Pierre Bénichou, Commandeur, was a French journalist.

Jean Benguigui is a French actor. He is of Jewish-Algerian descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach is a French journalist.

Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article "The Laugh of the Medusa", which established her as one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism. She founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the Centre universitaire de Vincennes of the University of Paris.

Abdelhafid Tasfaout is a retired Algerian footballer. A midfielder, he was the captain of the Algerian national team for five years.

Houcine Benayada is an Algerian footballer who currently plays for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Club Africain. He plays primarily as a centre-back but can also play as a right-back.

Orane Demazis was a French actress.

Cheb Hasni, born Hasni Chakroun, was an Algerian raï singer. He was popular across the Maghreb, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was the son of a welder and grew up in a working-class family where he was one of seven children. Hasni is most well known for his love songs, but he also dealt with taboo subjects such as divorce, sex and alcohol. He was murdered in 1994. Hasni's controversial lyrical content had drawn the ire of fanatic Islamist fundamentalists in Algeria and it is believed he was murdered as a result.